Like most people in central Senegal, Victor Ciss and his family rely on farming for their livelihood. But there is little work to be had during the dry season, when families eke out a living with the earnings from the previous harvest. In 2007, after his father got sick and needed care, Victor, then 25, decided to emigrate to Europe, where he hoped to find work and send money to his family back home.

He left behind the thatched-roof family home and made his way north to Senegal’s neighbor, Mauritania, where he was supposed to join other Senegalese migrants on their boat journey to Spain. At the time, it was a typical route taken by migrants to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago and popular tourist destination off the coast of Morocco. But once Victor left home, his family lost all contact with him.

THE MISSING: Senegal | Young Man Vanishes on Journey to Spain | NBC Left Field

A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant working in the nation's capital lived a secret life as a "domestic terrorist" who aspired to mass murder and compiled a target list of prominent politicians and journalists, federal prosecutors allege in court papers.

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Mohamed Safwan and his wife Melani worked hard to provide their kids with everything they needed. But when their youngest son, Malek, was diagnosed with diabetes and autism at a young age, they were unable to give him the care he needed in Lebanon. In 2015, they heard about migrants making the trip by boat from Turkey to Greece, from where they could reach Germany and other countries in Europe. The family decided this was their chance. They agreed that all three sons would accompany their mother on the trip. But tragedy struck when the boat sank while crossing the Aegean Sea. Melani’s body was recovered along with the others in the boat, but two sons were never found. Maher was the only son who returned home alive after swimming and treading water for more than six hours.

THE MISSING: Lebanon | A Family Pinning Hopes on Boat to Europe | NBC Left Field

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Dane Skylander: +CyeOutsider The families of the people killed by heroin and fentanyl coming from Mexico. Would disagree. The poor unskilled Americans worker still working for minimum wage. Would disagree. The people living along the boarder that can’t go out at night because the smugglers. Would disagree.The caravans of people rushing the boarder will only be stop by a wall.It is not fair to ask our soldiers or border patrol to repel these people and not hurt them.Build the wall for this reason alone.

As tragic as those incidences are, they do not constitute a national emergency. Especially when the researche shows a steep decline in illegal border crossings.

If that is a national emergency what do you call the THOUSANDS of Americans gunned down every year because of Americas gun problem?

Stop lying and enablings lies and the abuse of executive power.

Lying and fabricating emergencies to facilitate short sighted political goals may seem like a good idea now but just wait to see what happens when a Democratic president has the same idea.

Then you and your kind would be squealing like stuck pigs.

Dane Skylander: +CyeOutsider Because it doesn’t affect you it’s not a National emergency. Maybe the Nation should tell California next time they have a wild fire, sucks to be you. You have taken better care of your forest.The boarder has been a national emergency for 30 years.20 million illegals , only god knows how many death from the drugs pouring over the border.Quite being selfish is what I think ever time someone says it’s not an emergency. California Democrats were screaming its an emergency until there got there wall.

Tensions escalated after Graham pointedly asked Shanahan for his opinion on Trump's decision to leave Syria, and the acting secretary refused to condemn it. Raising his voice, Graham finally told Shanahan he should consider him "an adversary," according to the officials.

The Creepy Cracker: ... we had one president who was celebrated for his diplomatic negotiation w/ a Russian leader that led to the demolition of a wall in Germany. now we have elected a president whose mission in life is to build a wall ... WTF

Shawn Mcfadden: He's a FUCKING SELLOUT!!

Mikal De Valia: In fact, Drumpf overpaid and lost the hotel within a few years. But he found in Barrack a companion who shared his tastes for real estate and a celebrity lifestyle.

"Donald Drumpf is one of my closest friends for 40 years," Barrack told the convention audience.

"The bridge"

As a young man, Barrack had worked in Saudi Arabia, and he cultivated a network of contacts throughout the Middle East.

Veteran State Department adviser Aaron David Miller described Barrack as a "smart guy. Grew up speaking Arabic. Did extremely well for himself in the business world, but particularly in the Gulf."

Some of Barrack's Arab business associates were alarmed during the campaign by Drumpf's anti-Muslim rhetoric. But Barrack reassured them and later set about making introductions in the region, first to Drumpf's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and later to the president himself. Some of those early contacts were detailed in 2018 by the New York Times.

"Barrack emerged, because precisely of his decade-old ties with the Saudis and the Emiratis, as the bridge that created these relationships," said Miller, now a scholar at the Wilson Center.

Drumpf made Saudi Arabia the destination of his first foreign trip as president. And he's made strong ties to the kingdom — along with opposition to Iran — a cornerstone of his Middle East policy.

Miller questioned the wisdom of that single-minded approach, especially as the Saudi crown prince has pursued an authoritarian crackdown at home and a devastating war in neighboring Yemen.

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"Over the last 18 months, we've accomplished very little," Miller said. "And we've allowed ourselves to be tethered to a country and an individual that have left a wake of disasters."

U.S.intelligence agencies also implicated the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in the murder last October of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But like Drumpf, Barrack has been reluctant to pin blame on the Saudi leader.

"Whatever happened in Saudi Arabia, the atrocities in America are equal or worse to the atrocities in Saudi Arabia," Barrack said earlier this month at a conference in Abu Dhabi.

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After an uproar, Barrack apologized for those comments. But he continues to minimize the role of the Saudi government in Khashoggi's death, blaming it instead on "the bad acts of a few."

Questions for inaugural committee

Separately, federal prosecutors in New York issued subpoenas this month seeking records from the Drumpf inaugural committee that Barrack chaired.

That committee raised a record $107 million to stage the president's swearing-in. Investigators reportedly want to know how all that money was spent, where it came from, and whether any was raised illegally from foreign sources. A spokesman says Barrack does not believe he's a target of that probe.

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Drumpf Inaugural Committee Hit With SubpoenaAround the time those subpoenas went out, ProPublica and WNYC published a memo from Barrack's investment firm, drafted soon after the inauguration, showing how the firm might capitalize on its close ties to the new administration.

The memo reportedly was drafted by Rick Gates, onetime deputy to Drumpf's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Gates worked as a consultant for the firm until he was indicted during the special counsel's investigation. He has since pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying the FBI.

Although Barrack's firm denied acting on the memo, the watchdog group American Oversight found soon after Drumpf took office, Barrack and colleagues began showing up in private meetings with top Cabinet officials.

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"We're seeing him everywhere, getting the kind of access that, well, frankly people would pay a lot to get," said Austin Evers, the watchdog group's executive director.

"Five-alarm fire"

On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee listed Barrack as a key supporter of a plan to supply nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia despite warnings from whistleblowers that it might help the kingdom to develop nuclear weapons.

"This is a five-alarm fire when it comes to ethics and potential improper influence on our most important policy which is national security," Evers said.

Barrack said through a spokesman he's ready to cooperate with the Oversight Committee. The spokesman pointed to Barrack's four decades of "respected relationships" in the Middle East. He also stressed that Barrack has never held an official position inside the Drumpf administration.

Hector Eduardo Montoya was 19 years old in 2013 when he fled to the United States to escape the violence in Honduras. He comes from a town called El Progreso, in a region of Honduras often referred to as one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Around the time that Hector left home, 20 people on average were killed each day in Honduras, a country of only 8 million.

THE MISSING: Honduras | A Young Man Seeking the American Dream | NBC Left Field

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A Wolf: +robert kaczynski Hey, go fuck the queen, loser. Your native language must have been French because you are certainly an ESL boy.

E D: Anybody who believes in mass immigration to the United States should be chucked over Trump's wall after he builds it.😉

Dane Skylander: +A Wolf Wrong War on drugs was not just a slogan. Bush signed a decoration.

Bernie Sanders is campaigning for president again, officially entering the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field on Tuesday with a vow to finish what he started in his last race for the White House.

Mikal De Valia: "Now my chief objective is to establish beyond even a remote doubt that communism, so-called, is an integral part of the Illuminati great conspiracy for the enslavement of the entire world. That communism, so-called, is merely their weapon and bogy man word to terrify the peoples of the whole world and that the conquest of Russia and the creation of communism was, in great part, organized by Schiff and the other international bankers right in our own city of New York.

"A fantastic story? Yes. Some might even refuse to believe it. Well; for the benefit of any doubting Thomas I will prove it by reminding that just a few years ago Charlie Knickerbocker, a Hearst newspaper columnist, published an interview with John Schiff, grandson of Jacob, in which young Schiff confirmed the entire story and named the figure old Jacob contributed, $20,000,000.

"If anybody still has even a remote doubt that the entire menace of communism was created by the masterminds of the great conspiracy right in our own city of New York; I will cite the following historical fact: All records show that when Lenin and Trotsky engineered the capture of Russia; they operated as heads of the Bolsheviks party. Now "Bolshevism" is a purely Russian word.

"The masterminds realized that "Bolshevism" could never be sold as an ideology to any but the Russian people. So in April 1918; Jacob Schiff dispatched Colonel House to Moscow with orders to Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to change the name of their regime to the Communist Party and to adopt the Karl Marx "Manifesto" as the constitution of the Communist Party. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin obeyed; and in that year of 1918 was when the Communist party and the menace of communism came into being. All this is confirmed in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition.

E D: Hierarchies existed long before communism and this "bulshit"Alex Jones Illuminati you speak of..😂

E D: Besides your post has done nothing to address the issue. Capitalism is better for people than communism and that is a fact that you cannot deny and history has proven. So regardless of who the authors of each were or are..the potential for corruption within communism is much greater and always has been than the potential for corruption in capitalism, that's obviously not to say to either is uncorruptible..

It's not like Russia was the only country communism was attempted in..

All I'm saying is that capitalism is better than socialism or communism. That's different than saying it's not corruptible or not corrupt.

Nomalanga Ndlovu was only 18 when she first left her village in southern Zimbabwe and crossed the border into South Africa in search of work. She wanted to support her family, who had recently lost much of their livestock to drought. After Nomalanga became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy, Siyabonga, she left the child with her parents to return to her job as a domestic worker in South Africa. But on this fateful trip across the border in 2012, she disappeared. Knowing she would never abandon her son, her family fears the worst.

THE MISSING: Zimbabwe | She'd Never Leave Her Son Behind | NBC Left Field

Mikal De Valia: "Now my chief objective is to establish beyond even a remote doubt that communism, so-called, is an integral part of the Illuminati great conspiracy for the enslavement of the entire world. That communism, so-called, is merely their weapon and bogy man word to terrify the peoples of the whole world and that the conquest of Russia and the creation of communism was, in great part, organized by Schiff and the other international bankers right in our own city of New York.

"A fantastic story? Yes. Some might even refuse to believe it. Well; for the benefit of any doubting Thomas I will prove it by reminding that just a few years ago Charlie Knickerbocker, a Hearst newspaper columnist, published an interview with John Schiff, grandson of Jacob, in which young Schiff confirmed the entire story and named the figure old Jacob contributed, $20,000,000.

"If anybody still has even a remote doubt that the entire menace of communism was created by the masterminds of the great conspiracy right in our own city of New York; I will cite the following historical fact: All records show that when Lenin and Trotsky engineered the capture of Russia; they operated as heads of the Bolsheviks party. Now "Bolshevism" is a purely Russian word.

"The masterminds realized that "Bolshevism" could never be sold as an ideology to any but the Russian people. So in April 1918; Jacob Schiff dispatched Colonel House to Moscow with orders to Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to change the name of their regime to the Communist Party and to adopt the Karl Marx "Manifesto" as the constitution of the Communist Party. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin obeyed; and in that year of 1918 was when the Communist party and the menace of communism came into being. All this is confirmed in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition.

Waldemar Marchesi: +Carl Arteaga you should try to stage a hate crime get some black guys to help you so all you get when you get caught is a slap on the wrist , or better yet get a native American to get into a child face whose wearing a Trump hat and get the media to blame the innocent kid and drag him through the dirt publicly, then you'll know who the real liers are , after you're sued for 250 million dollars. Lmao

The majority of Americans just found out who they don't want in power , and thats the democrat party, and their political activist who spill their propagand that call themselves journalist.

The Creepy Cracker: +Hudson Child David Hogg has had plenty to say about Guns... who's the "OTHER" kids? Bang Bang Mother Fucker, Ask AG Ferguson how that's all work'n out in Washington. Take what you Want... Pay for what You take!

David Connor: It was also Ash Wednesday.Thank God & their parents for the surviving young people and their efforts to reduce gun violence in America.